X-Ray Telescope’s First 10 Years of Awesome Images

Ten years ago today, NASA launched the Chandra X-Ray Observatory aboard the space shuttle Columbia. And it has provided stunning images from the high-energy side of the electromagnetic spectrum ever since.

Things have gone so well that the the Chandra team gave themselves a well-deserved pat on the back.

“Chandra’s discoveries are truly astonishing and have made dramatic changes to our understanding of the universe and its constituents,” Martin Weisskopf, Chandra project scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, said in a press release.

NASA created a list of Chandra’s top 10 scientific discoveries, but we’re suckers for the pretty pictures it produces of supernova remnants and pulsar jets and the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

We’ve entered a selection of Chandra images into the Reddit widget for you to vote on — or you can add your own. (Sorry, we can’t host them; you’ll have to link them from NASA’s website.)